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Duke Week for Terps on Two Fronts

by darnold on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

A certain hated University down in North Carolina is sending two of their squads north to Maryland in the coming days.  I don’t know about you, but I taste blood in the water.

Wednesday night at the Comcast Center, the 22nd-ranked Maryland Men’s basketball team takes on the 4th-ranked Duke Blue Devils.

On Saturday at M&T Bank [...]

Ben Stein’s Dirty Money

by Bill Frick on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

I used to like Ben Stein.  Sure, he was a patronizing Nixonite, but how can you hold that against Ferris Bueller’s stultefying, roll calling teacher?
Unfortunately, Stein has a new starring role – ripping off consumers.  Stein now can be found on TV’s across our area as a pitchman for FreeScore.com, a site that urges consumers [...]

What’s in YOUR Water?

by amanda on Sunday, February 28th, 2010

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In an article published last week in Current Opinion in Pediatrics, a well-respected professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, Philip Landrigan, talks about the environmental chemicals implicated in neurodevelopmental disabilities. He discusses the possibility that environmental toxins may be contributing to autism, alerting the scientific community to [...]

Can I Get A . . . ?

by Brian on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Okay, first read this quote from a post about the ‘burgeoning’ indie classical movement by Christian Carey over at Sequenza21:
In some critical circles, indie classical has, rightly or wrongly, been under the microscope for making pop into a ‘longhair’ genre, robbing it of its immediacy in favor of overt sophistication. I’d submit that this vantage [...]

My Ignite Baltimore Talk, Transcribed

by Brian on Friday, March 5th, 2010

The following is the transcript of my Ignite Baltimore talk, which was titled “Hybridity: Remaking Baltimore’s (New) Musical Horizon.” The event took place at the Walters Art Museum on Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Okay, so I’m a Peabody grad. And as a Peabody grad you get the Peabody magazine, which, you know, makes [...]

Wait, But Is Renee Fleming Gonna Ruin It For Everyone By Making Us Look Like Sellouts?

by Brian on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Did you hear about the indie makeover that opera star Renée Fleming is getting? The People’s Diva’s next album, entitled Dark Hope (Decca, due out June 8, 2010), includes music by Arcade Fire, The Mars Volta, and Death Cab for Cutie, among others. And here’s a little quote from Renée lettin’ everyone know that she [...]

The 2010 ALMS Winter Testing Event

by Jay Davidson on Monday, March 1st, 2010

The 2010 American Le Mans Series Winter Test recorded a record number of entries and proved to be a great opportunity for all teams!
Aston Martin Racing was the quickest around the track in testing the Aston Martin-powered Lola B09/60 LMP1 machine with an overall best lap time of 1 min and 46.894 seconds….FAST! In GT-2 [...]

Final Pre-Combine Mock Drafts

by darnold on Sunday, February 28th, 2010

With the NFL scouting combine in full swing this weekend in Indianapolis (home of the Super Bowl LOSERS, of course), all of the NFL draft “gurus” are getting ready to straight up mangle their “big boards,” “Top 50s,” or whatever else they call their player rankings.
Before they get the chance to do that, I wanted [...]

Should Baltimore Identify Itself As The Weirdest Place On Earth?

by Brian on Monday, March 8th, 2010

In my Ignite talk last week, I mentioned that I thought it was high time we move on here in Baltimore from defining ourselves to the outside world simply by the quirky and irreverent parts of the city’s cultural life. I think those aspects are an important part of Baltimore’s artistic identity, but that defining [...]

Improvisers Anonymous

by Brian on Monday, March 1st, 2010

Sometimes I feel like experimental improvisers can be a lot like alcoholics—they don’t know when to stop. I was going to keep these thoughts to myself but something happened during Mobtown Modern’s performance of Cobra last week that made me want to put it out there: I think I became the person that you’ll read [...]

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